Brace for car-walls.



No. 831,815. PATENTED SEPT-18, 1906.

J. H. WBISBROD. BRAGB FOR GAR WALLS.

APPliiIOATION FILED MAR. 28,

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I y fe- UNITED "STATES PATENT, OFFICE;

JACOB H. WEISBROD, ORST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TOAMERICAN OAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY, or ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BRAO FOR CAR-WALLS.

No. 831,315. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept, 18, 1906.

Application filed March 28, 1906. Serial No. 308,489.

I a citizen of the United States, residing at St.

Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Im rovement in Braces for Car- Walls, of whic the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable Others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accom anying drawings, forming part of this spec' cation, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a car-wall provided with a plurality of braces embodying the features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken at a point indicated by the line 2 2 of Fig. 1 ;v and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing my improved braces arranged in a slightly different manner.

This invention relates to cars, and particularly to freight-cars of the type known as gondola cars.

The object of my invention" is to provide novel means for bracing the sides and end walls of a car,.said means consisting of a com- 'bined post and diagonal, which is preferably connected at its upper and lower ends to the top and bottom chords of the car-Wall.

In the embodiment vherein shown, Which nected to the top and bottom chords of the Wall. The lower end of the post is bent at approximately a right angle to the body portion thereof, and t e lower end of the diagoiromsag ing, the top an nal is also.bent slightly, so that the opposite ends of the brace will lie parallel to the horizontal leg of the angle 3 at the lower edge of the car-wall, rivets 6 passing through the bent portions of the brace and through the vertical leg of the angle 3. The upper end of-the brace at the point Where the post and diagonal merge ,is connected to the vertical leg of the angle 2 at the upper. edge of the ,Wall. by rivets 7. Preferably and as herein shown a plurality of. these braces are provided for the car-wall, said braces being so arranged thatthe end of the deflected por-,. tion of a post abuts against the end of the deflected portion of the diagonal of the adja-' cent brace. A construction of this charac-' ter very eflectively braces the wall of ace! and prevents the central ortio'n of the Wall d bottom chords of the wall eing rigidly connected together by said braces.

In Fig. 3 I haveshown "a slightly-modified form of my invention, wherein the opposite ends of the brace are connectedto the angle .at the upper ed e of the car-wall, the portion of the race w ere the post and diagonal fmerge being connected to the angle at the loweredge of the car-wall.

Havin thus described the invention, what metal 'ofthe :same shape in cross-section 30 represents the preferred form of my invenis claime as new, and desired to be'secured tion, I have shown my combined 0st and by Letters Patent, is diagonal as being formed by an ,ang e; but it v 1. A car-wall brace comprising a combined should be understood. thatother well-known post and diagonal formed from a continuous commercially rolled shapes capable of bein piece of flanged metal, the free ends of said 35 provided with a sharp bend could be use piece of. metal being bent at an an Is to the 7 without departing from the scope of my inodg' portions thereof; substantial y as devention. scri e Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawin s, 1 des-v 2. A car havin a wall provided with top ignates the side wall of a car provi ed at its and bottom chor s, and a plurality of braces 0 upper edge with an angle 2, acting as the top connected to said chords, said braces comc 'ord, and at its lower edge with an angle 3, prising continuous flanged members bent to acting as the bottom chord. A brace conform osts and diagonals having their free sisting of a combined post4 and diagonal 5, ends efle'cted and butti against each other; formed by bending a continuous L.-shaped substan'tiall as describ fi. 45 bar into the form of an acute angle is con- 3. A car avin a'wall provided with top throughout their length so that they constisignature, in the-presence of two witnesses, tute combined posts and diagonals, the free this 26th day of March, 1906. ends of said posts'and diagonals being bent I at an angle to the body portions thereof, and I JACOB WEIS-BROD 5 the end of one post abutting'the end of an Witnesses:

adjacent diagonal substantially as described. WELLS L. CHURoH,

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my GEORGE BAKE E L. 

